Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

by

Margaret Mitchell

Bonnie Blue Butler Character Analysis

Bonnie Blue Butler is Rhett and Scarlett’s daughter. She was originally named Eugene Victoria, but Rhett christens her Bonnie when Melanie says her eyes are as blue as the Bonnie Blue Flag. She is charming and vivacious, except at night in the dark when she wakes from terrible nightmares and only Rhett can comfort her. She idolizes Rhett, and she rides around with him on his horse. Rhett dedicates himself to securing Bonnie’s future, which he does by switching political parties. As Bonnie grows, she comes to love riding, so Rhett gets her a pony and teaches her how to jump. At the end of the novel when Bonnie is four years old, she tries to jump too high and falls, breaking her neck and painfully reiterating Gerald’s death. Rhett later tells Scarlett that he loved Bonnie because she reminded him of what Scarlett might be like if Scarlett were to love him back.

Bonnie Blue Butler Quotes in Gone with the Wind

The Gone with the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Bonnie Blue Butler or refer to Bonnie Blue Butler . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Civil War and Reconstruction Theme Icon
).
Chapter 60 Quotes

She had never before known this type of fear. All her life her feet had been firmly planted in common sense and the only things she had ever feared had been the things she could see, injury, hunger, poverty, loss of Ashley’s love. […] Those fears had never weighed her down as this feeling of wrongness was doing.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara (speaker), Rhett Butler , Bonnie Blue Butler
Page Number: 925
Explanation and Analysis:
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Bonnie Blue Butler Quotes in Gone with the Wind

The Gone with the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Bonnie Blue Butler or refer to Bonnie Blue Butler . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Civil War and Reconstruction Theme Icon
).
Chapter 60 Quotes

She had never before known this type of fear. All her life her feet had been firmly planted in common sense and the only things she had ever feared had been the things she could see, injury, hunger, poverty, loss of Ashley’s love. […] Those fears had never weighed her down as this feeling of wrongness was doing.

Related Characters: Scarlett O’Hara (speaker), Rhett Butler , Bonnie Blue Butler
Page Number: 925
Explanation and Analysis: